On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Andreas Jung <e...@zopyx.com> wrote: > Hi Svaksha, > > See > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_rata > > It basically means that the financial aid committee has the freedom > to decide how much financial support can be given for travel and > housing depending on the application, level of volunteering and so on. > Since the budget for financial assistance is not infinite the committee > has to make decisions in order to spread money in a reasonable way the > across elegible applicats. The decision for the final round will be made > after the deadline which ends tonight.
Thanks for the reply Andreas. I agree with your observation that budgets are always limited. Basically, I'm trying to understand how FA is disbursed because in the past, I've never quite managed to bridge the (huge) gap between the grant and the actual amount required for travel costs, accommodation costs, etc.. To explain, for example, Pycon grants are fixed amounts distributed between travel, ticket, hotel, tutorial, conf, etc.. This break-up means I cannot find a sponsor for travel and use that grant amount to offset the accommodation costs. So, four years in a row, I have had to return the FA received from Pycon (USA) at the last minute, as its harder to find sponsors for multiple things as opposed to requesting they fund either "travel" or "hotel" for 'N' amount. This means I increase the work for the volunteer who will then have to re-allocate the grant amount or worse, I blocked someone else who could have attended easily in that grant amount. This was the information I was looking for as pro rata seemed similar to the above and I wanted to avoid giving extra work to everyone involved. Hope that explains. Thanks,- SVAKSHA ॥ http://about.me/svaksha ॥ _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2014 - July 21th-27th in Berlin EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
